Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework

This paper explores how institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agriculture and natural resource management. Those technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentiv...

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Main Authors: Knox, Anna, Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S., Hazell, Peter B. R.
Format: Artículo preliminar
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 1998
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161599
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author Knox, Anna
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Hazell, Peter B. R.
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description This paper explores how institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agriculture and natural resource management. Those technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives to adopt, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinate, either across individual private property or in common property regimes. In contrast to many crop technologies like highyielding variety seeds or fertilizers, natural resource management technologies like agroforestry, watershed management, irrigation, or fisheries tend to embody greater and more varying temporal and spatial dimensions. Whereas the literature addressing constraints and enabling factors for rural technology adoption have largely focused on their direct effects on crop technologies, the conceptual framework presented here shows how property rights and collective action interact with many other constraints to technology development (such as wealth, information, risk, or labor availability). The paper further explores how the structure of property rights and collective action shape the efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability of technological outcomes, thereby enriching our understanding of different technologies’ contributions to poverty alleviation.
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spelling CGSpace1615992025-01-10T06:44:30Z Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework Knox, Anna Meinzen-Dick, Ruth S. Hazell, Peter B. R. environmental management gender capacity development poverty multiple use technology transfer This paper explores how institutions of property rights and collective action play a particularly important role in the application of technologies for agriculture and natural resource management. Those technologies with long time frames tend to require tenure security to provide sufficient incentives to adopt, while those that operate on a large spatial scale will require collective action to coordinate, either across individual private property or in common property regimes. In contrast to many crop technologies like highyielding variety seeds or fertilizers, natural resource management technologies like agroforestry, watershed management, irrigation, or fisheries tend to embody greater and more varying temporal and spatial dimensions. Whereas the literature addressing constraints and enabling factors for rural technology adoption have largely focused on their direct effects on crop technologies, the conceptual framework presented here shows how property rights and collective action interact with many other constraints to technology development (such as wealth, information, risk, or labor availability). The paper further explores how the structure of property rights and collective action shape the efficiency, equity and environmental sustainability of technological outcomes, thereby enriching our understanding of different technologies’ contributions to poverty alleviation. 1998 2024-11-21T09:56:43Z 2024-11-21T09:56:43Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161599 en Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Knox, Anna; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela; Hazell, P. B. R. 1998. Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management;a conceptual framework. SP-PRCA working paper; CAPRi working paper. 0001. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/161599
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poverty
multiple use
technology transfer
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Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework
title Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework
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title_short Property rights, collective action and technologies for natural resource management: a conceptual framework
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topic environmental management
gender
capacity development
poverty
multiple use
technology transfer
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